Styling the new twitter widget (embedded timeline)

Question

A few days/weeks ago, some of my sites\' twitter widgets stopped pulling through data properly. Turns out Version 2 twitter widget is deprecated, and the new embedded timeli

Answer 1

In the Microsoft MVC world there are helpers in the Microsoft.Web.Helpers library, specifically using:

@Twitter.Profile(...

The above is just a wrapper around the V2 widget, but indicates there is a high usage of that particular widget.

I've looked into your question for a while now (in fact when the deprecation message started appearing) and I have come to the following conclusions:

1. The widget will not be deprecated due to its wide use
2. If it is deprecated a far richer timeline widget will be available
3. Failing this it will be the case of using the API and writing our own widgets, which will be a step back for Twitter